Mulberry Visitor
This is the time of year that our mulberry tree is often full of squirrels & birds. Something seemed a little off at breakfast this morning. Look who was sitting 30 feet in the...
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Strawberry (rhubarb) Shortcake Day
Mike discovered that today is National Strawberry Shortcake Day, so obviously I had to make strawberry shortcakes today. We also had some rhubarb sauce I’d made earlier in the week with rhubarb from Wilson’s....
Cheater Lens
I’ve had the MIG welder out recently. It’s been a bit frustrating. I haven’t gotten a decent line in years now. The big problem is that I can’t see what I’m doing any more....
Winter Projects
This package came from England the other day. So, what’s inside? The piece I was waiting for to finish off this winter’s projects: This is a new radiator from Cooling Experts. The Westfield uses...
What We Did Last Summer
The other day I realized that we never uploaded the pictures from last summer’s microcar event. I finally fixed that. Here they are. Better late than never, I guess? Anyways, some nice pictures for...
The Failing Railing
One of the posts holding the railing along the front steps has been getting pretty rusty. I was worried about it failing while someone was leaning on the railing. So I spent some time...
Süleymaniye Mosque
After we walked along the land walls in Istanbul, we walked through the Fener neighborhood … … with this dog following us most of the way for some reason. We visited the Chora museum. It’s...
Land Walls of Theodosius
Last weekend we were in Istanbul. It was an amazing experience, and I’ll probably have a couple of posts about it. But I want to start with what we did Sunday morning. We took...
